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A WHITE-GLAZED DING-TYPE YUHUCHUN p. 210. A similarly proportioned, white-glazed yuhuchun vase is in the
VASE Kwan Collection, illustrated in Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1994, p. 106, no. 35. The Kwan vase has
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY been attributed to Jiexiu ware in Shanxi province. A similar white ware
pear-shaped vase with a slightly compressed body is in the Hakone Art
The elegantly potted pear-shaped vase yuhuchunping with low splayed foot Museum, Japan, illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 1976, vol. 1,
and flared mouth. The exterior is covered with a white glaze that continues no. 637. Another related pear-shaped vase with slightly longer neck is
inside the neck, with the exception of the unglazed foot exposing the pale illustrated by S. Valenstein, The Herzman Collection of Chinese Ceramics,
white biscuit body. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, no. 25. Compare
also a few other examples identified as Ding ware, one in the collection
11 Ω in. (29.3 cm.) high, Japanese wood box of the British Museum, illustrated by S. Vainker, Chinese Pottery and
Porcelain From Prehistory to the Present, British Museum Press, London,
HK$400,000-600,000 US$50,000-78,000 1991, p. 89, no. 66; one with slightly longer neck and incised floral
decoration in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
PROVENANCE illustrated in Dingyao baici tezhen tulu, Taipei, 1987, no. 22; and another
Toguri Museum of Art with incised floral decoration in the collection of the Tianjin Museum
Sen Shu Tey, Tokyo of Art, illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong
Kong, 1993, no. 23.
EXHIBITED
Sen Shu Tey, Special Exhibition ‘Run Through 10 Years’, Tokyo, 2006, 北宋/金 白釉玉壺春瓶
Catalogue, no. 62
來源
LITERATURE 戶栗美術館藏品
Sen Shu Tey, The Collection of Chinese Art, Tokyo, 2006, p. 53, no. 62 千秋庭，東京

This vase is of an especially elegant yuhuchunping, pear-shaped vase form. 展覽
Some scholars have suggested that one of the uses for pear-shaped vases 千秋庭，《創立十周年紀念展覽會》，東京，2006年，圖錄編號62
was as a decanter for wine. Although as yet there is little corroborating
evidence for this use in the Song period, Yuan dynasty burials and tomb 著錄
murals suggest this may have been the case (fig. 1). Certainly the graceful 千秋庭，《中國美術蒐集》，東京，2006年，53頁，編號62
proportions of the few extant Song dynasty Ding and Ru ware pear-
shaped vases show that they were also eminently suitable to grace the 侈口，細長頸，垂腹，寬圈足。通體施化妝土，外罩透明釉，底足無釉。
tables of the refined Song elite. 此器造型端莊典雅，為早期玉壺春瓶器形的代表。關於玉壺春瓶的用途，
學界素有花器和酒器的兩種說法。儘管目前無法以宋代的資料來證明，但
A related white-glazed yuhuchun vase was excavated from Xiangfen, 是以玉壺春瓶作為酒器的例子在元代墓葬壁畫中可以找到確鑿的證據
Shanxi province, illustrated in the Zhongguo chutu ciqi quanji (Complete (圖一)。與此同時，幾件傳世的汝窯及定窯玉壺春瓶亦可作為此式器物被當
Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), Beijing, 2008, vol. 5, 作陳設用瓷的例證。

山西襄汾曾出土過一件近似的白
釉玉壺春瓶，載於北京2008年出
版《中國出土瓷器全集》，卷5，
210頁。香港關善明收藏有一件
造型，比例都與本品相似的白釉
玉壺春瓶，載於香港1994年出
版《關氏所藏宋代陶瓷》，106
頁，被定為山西介休窯。亦可比
箱根美術館藏一例，著錄於東京
1976年出版《龍泉集芳》，第
一集，211頁，編號637；另一
件著錄於紐約1992年出版《The
Herzman Collection of Chinese
Ceramics》，編號25。

The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics 古韻天成 — 臨宇山人珍藏（一） fig. 1 Mural painting from a Yuan dynasty
tomb in Pucheng City, Shaanxi Province,
dated to the 6th year of the Zhiyuan era (1269)
圖一 陝西浦城元代至元六年 (1269) 墓葬壁畫

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